I hear humans are mostly made of it!
Also Young as You Feel Day, which should obviously have been yesterday. Today I have to acknowledge that I’m mumblemumble.
Tried shopping with the cart, which I haven’t done in years. It was definitely easier on my hands, but I think slower on my walking even though it’s not really any encumbrance due to the miracle of the wheel.
Cleaned up more browser tabs, found a list of SFF shorts by trans authors.
Read (short): “Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue” (Charlie Jane Anders): Pretty sure only the bit with zombies is different than what Republicans are currently doing to trans people.
Read (short): “The Shape of My Name” (Nino Cipri): Time travel adds an extra level of stress on top of being trans.
Read (short): “Of Warps and Wefts” (Innocent Chizaram Ilo): Magic surrealism? Once you get married, at night you become a different person of the opposite gender and are married to the night version of a different person. Oddly, this does not cure all marital strife. Also sometimes children grow roots or learn to read minds.
Read (short): “Everquest” (Naomi Kanakia): I have never played a female character in a video game, so of course I would not have any feelings about this.
Read (short): “Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time” (KM Szpara): Interaction of vampire immortality and trans body modification, plus general gay vampirism.
Read (short): “Three Points Masculine” (An Owomoyela): Instead of forcibly detransitioning trans people, the government has standardized tests to determine gender and required scores for various jobs. This is not any better.
Read (short): “To Balance the Weight of Khalem” (RB Lemberg): A nonbinary refugee gets shuffled around magical cities but meets magical creatures along the way.
Read (short): “Want Itself Is a Treasure in Heaven” (Theodora Ward): CW: body-sharing brain implants, drug use, severe mental health breakdown.
Read (short): “The Venus Effect” (Violet Allen): Metafiction about black lives cut short by cops.
Read (manga): Cthulhu Cat (Pandania): The Great Old Ones manifest as cats, cute hijinks ensue, sanity is blasted, bystanders are harmed in the making of this cult, etc. For some reason I liked this better than most cutethuloid works.
Written (catgirl): 178.